{"id":43763,"date":"2011-01-30T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43763"},"modified":"2011-01-30T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T18:52:30","slug":"french-solo-sailor-to-attempt-round-the-world-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43763","title":{"rendered":"French solo sailor to attempt round the world speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More than a month after his target departure date of 20th December, French solo sailor Thomas Coville has set off from the port of Brest in his 105 ft trimaran Sodeb&#8217;O in a bid to break the around-the-world solo sailing record. To achieve this, he will have to round the globe in less than 57 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes and 6 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is how long it took his fellow Frenchman Francis Joyon to circle the world three years ago, and THAT was a whopping 14 days faster than British sailor Ellen Macarthur&#8217;s record making voyage in 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two years ago, in the same boat, Coville made an attempt to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/French-solo-sailor-to-attempt-round-the-world-speed-record\/79804\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a month after his target departure date of 20th December, French solo sailor Thomas Coville has set off from the port of Brest in his 105 ft trimaran Sodeb&#8217;O in a bid to break the around-the-world solo sailing record. To achieve this, he will have to round the globe in less than 57 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43764,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43763\/revisions\/43764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}